So I’m sitting in my favorite Japanese place eating lunch yesterday. Rush of Fools song Undo came on K Love and I immediately got disgusted. I just wanted to go outside and throw up. This dang radio station (and others) has to feminize every dang song. They can’t just leave it the way the artist wrote it. No, they have to go emasculate the song because the rock and roll in the background may offend some of the listeners.
It’s not like this is a new concept for me. The Fish (that I listened to some in Georgia) does the same exact thing and it brings my blood to a boil every time I think about it.
To be honest, I’m not sure why they do this to every song that I love. But I do know that it butchers the song.
If I were one of those artists and one of those radio stations asked me for a “toned down” version of my song I would absolutely laugh in their face. Then, they would probably threaten me by saying “if you don’t give us a more ‘family friendly’ version of your song we won’t play your music.” I would quickly respond by telling them they can either play the song the way it is. If they don’t I don’t want them playing it because that’s not who I wrote the music for in the first place. I really wouldn’t care if they played it or not.
Seriously, they have to play the crappy verions of songs by Third Day, Casting Crowns, Superchick, and the list goes on…. You think that playing songs where men sing like Celine Deon will attrack the unchurched?? Be for real.
Fortunately, we have tech devices like ipods, zen’s, and zune’s to play our music so we don’t have to listen to a dang radio station that spends most of their time talking during prime music playing time.
To all those radio stations that can’t sac up and play the real version of a song the way the artist intended: Bite me.
[end rant]
